Jennifer Homendy
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61 appearances
23 recordings
6 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 9 Sep
Jennifer Homendy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In order for ASDX to work well, you have to know where ground vehicles and aircraft are.
So in this case, that vehicle did not have a transponder.
ASDX is a runway safety system which allows air traffic controllers to track surface movement of aircraft and vehicles.
So in this case, that vehicle did not have a transponder.
There were two people in the cab, two people in the tower cab.
We have the CVR and FDR.
We've also collected and have continued to collect surveillance video.
We've asked the Federal Aviation Administration, who will be providing that ASDE replay of the event, ASDE airport surface detection equipment replay of the event.
So it's been a really, really big challenge to get the entire team here and they're still arriving as I speak.
NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said there are many questions that need to be answered at the start of this investigation.
Homendy said they also have information on tower staffing at the time, but will not guess this early on a cause.
She did share that the flight data and cockpit voice recorders are in Washington and are being processed.
We have not had a full day of investigation here today.
And I think that's important because there are a lot of questions, and I understand there are a lot of questions.
I've heard them.
The chair of the NTSB, Jennifer Homendy, said the FAA should have known that there was a conflict between this helicopter route along the Potomac River and the approach to Runway 33 at the DCA airport, where the American Airlines regional jet flying from Kansas was trying to land.
Homendy says those two flight paths were separated by less than 100 feet.
After a year-long investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board released its findings about the collision of an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet that killed 67 people.
And investigators laid much of the blame on the Federal Aviation Administration.
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy says the FAA should have known that there was a conflict between the helicopter route and the approach to Runway 33 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
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